A New Operation for Entropion and Trichiasis of the Upper Eyelids
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A New Operation for Entropion and Trichiasis of the Upper Eyelids
p askovics' operation described fully in Torok and trout's Surgery of the Eye, an operation designed and eminently suited for the extreme degree of entropion found in the late stages of trachoma. With due deference to the author I may state that aesthetics P'ay little or no part in the gross deformity found ln these cases, a feature not brought out in the otherwise very excellent diagrams of th...
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